Richard Nixon, Resigned before he was impeached > Donald Trump, We can only hope

Woodstock & Summer of Love > March For Our Lives?

Prague Spring > Arab Spring

* Bernie Sanders (and many others) moved to the Vermont woods in 1968.

Post Script: The sceond book on the list above used to be Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961). A friend said to cut it, and I understand that. She is different than the others. But she has had at least as much effect on the way we live today as the others.

She is an important precedent for the founding of Chez Panisse in 1971. Alice Waters came home from a trip to France, tried to cook what she had eaten on her trip, and realized that the ingredients available to her were not good enough to duplicate French cooking. So she started working with local organic farmers to develop supply lines for the restaurant, and locavore and farm-to-table were born in the United States.